A Heated Debate Between Two Charismatic Geniuses: A Cardinal Fan (Jeff Lung) and a Tiger Fan (Allen Krause)

Shutting it Down

Imagine you’re the general manager of a baseball team. Now imagine that your ownership team is split between two separate factions who can’t stand each other. They so disagree on the direction the team should take that they won’t even tell you how much money you have to field your baseball team. In fact, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll have to shut down in a couple weeks. Only until things can be sorted out, of course, and then you have to get back to business as usual.

Yeah, exactly. That would never fly. The same thing is true if you were talking about a major corporation or even a small business. But after going through a government shutdown 17 years ago, we’re heading that way again.

Now, I’m a realist. I understand that both parties are content to just let this play out until someone flinches. And with next year being an election year, neither side wants to come out looking like the bad guy or looking soft. In the end we’ll probably get some sort of mishmash of a bill that doesn’t solve any of the long-term problems we face yet both sides will claim victory while simultaneously talking about how the other guys screwed the American public. It’s just sad that we can’t get some good leadership there in Washington. You know, like Bud Selig.

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*shudders* Yeah, I know of two couples out here where one or both individuals had to file for BK because of that shutdown 17 years ago. Oddly enough when no money comes into the house for months on end, rainy day cushions don’t cover it. “Selig – not quite as big a f— up as the Congressman you have now.” Historically speaking, there have been odder campaign slogans. *snerk*
Kristen
This is a very simple game…

A,
Any podcast that starts off with a photo of ALF has to be out of this World funny.
Seriously, that is something I can not do, the radio, speaking segments and I am jealous. But it is something you and your crew do with percision, great depth and a ounce of great sarcasm…….I want to grow up and be like the RSBS crew.

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